Taupotreeman

Just popped in to my freindly neighbourhood Stihl shop today and they had one of those 192T's in. I have to say, despite in not being a full pro saw, it's incredibly light and for stuff like street tree work, light pruning etc it would be awesome and a lot cheaper than a MS200T. Not so sure about the fuel primer though, I can see that getting popped or busted within the first few days once it's been smacked against a couple of branches and the odd dead stump. Still, I'd be tempted with it as replacement saw for those lighter jobs. Haven't yet seen the 201 or heard anything about it.

Is this the most boring world cup ever should have been the thread title. What's with the 6 or 7 days between games for any particular team? And can any result that pakistan produce be reliable these days? Mind you I'll take a kiwi win anyway we can at the moment. And can somebody please knock those cock sure Ozzies out before I have to watch one more bowler try and stare down one of the opposition.

That limb looks like about a third of the tree. I reckon it would look odd if the whole thing was removed, top heavy and would definately put some stress on the tree. I'd side with mrtree here and look at a reduction of the limb possibly in conjunction with bracing.

I hate to say it but I still work on my own a lot of the time. Mainly for smaller jobs and what we call drop and leave, where there's no clean up. Unfortunately I just don't have enough work to bring in a full time groundy but I do have a part time guy that I use for big jobs, rigging or stuff that's just too dodgy to do alone. And I can certainly sympathise with getting your rope caught up at the bottom of the tree and having to pole slide down using your nads as brakes. And yeah, having a groundy certainly makes life so much easier on the clean up, as does a decent chipper. I felled a humungous Plane once and then spent two days on the clean up breathing in all those horrible little hairs and the dust. That was the turning point for me with the bigger jobs.

I've already dished out a small fortune to the red cross for Christchurch so couldn't afford to donate anymore via the thread otherwise I'd have kept winding em up to see if anyone actually bothered reading it

The march of the Ents. After reading a couple of posts at the weekend I thought I might pay a bit more attention to what was around me and what I take for granted on the way home most days. The photos aren't top quality as I got a bit steamed up in the cab but they are of more old growth forest with new generation coming through below. Several are deader than a dodo and next to a Sate Highway with some serious weight from epiphytes in the canopy but they are left to decay naturally and fall as they wish. If they fall on the highway they are shoved to the side and left to decay on the road margins. Mostly Kahikatea, Rimu, Nothofagus etc. No idea about the self supporting colonies in the canopy. On a misty day they truly look like Ents looming over the road below.

A couple more for you along with some mosses and epiphytes. The mosses were in the upper canopy of a large Kahikatea I was clearing from the power lines, about 40 feet up.

Somebody is going to have a very sore hand. Several more are going to have very sore ears.

Until you open up the catalogue. Then everything looks good and you think it would look even better in your kit bag.

Plenty of time to sit on your backside when you're old and crusty and your legs don't work anymore. BUT......you do have to weigh up giving up a job in a nice warm office or vehicle to go back out and face the British weather at its worst. Sliding and sliming around in trees in persistant precipitation, snow etc. Personally I'd chose outdoors despite the weather.

Sorry to hear you're heading home bro. Hope all goes well back in the UK.

Now that's just nit picking but you are right.

The funny thing is several people kept posting that this comp was donkey's old yet all people could see was the possibility of a freebie. It's like the exam paper that tells you to read ALL the questions before starting, the very last question/statement being to fill in your name and name only then fold your paper over and sit and wait. Most people just fill out the whole paper without reading the questions.

As far as I am concerned there have been several different points raised around the one question so for what it's worth here are my thoughts. 1. I would do a couple of days free as a working interview if I thought there was a possibility of a job at the end NOT if I thought the prospective employer was feeding me the proverbial to get free labour. And it would probably only be a couple of days unless the prosepctive employer and I could negotiate further, maybe because they needed to see a wider range of skills. I think a week is pushing it a bit. 2. I often do work for free, in fact I dismantled a large tree for the local Christian Camp on Friday after seeing them trying to attempt it themselves. I couldn't live with myself if I walked away and someone died (not my problem I know but still) and I do the occasional tree for those in need, the elderly etc. The same as I might throw in a couple of extras at no charge. The warm fuzzies I get off it far outways the monetery cost. Plus, I leave the job with a happy customer and word of mouth is gold in this day. 3. If I wanted to further my knowledge of something and I could do this by working for another company etc I would gladly do this for free as the knowledge I gained would be of benefit to myself somewhere down the line. For example, I would happily work with someone like Hama just to have a tiny portion of his knowledge on all things shroomy.

Now you just want to keep it going to see how many more sign up without reading.

Heterotrophs

You should probably also read back through the rest of the thread; especially the begining.

Deep!

Never seen fibres on the trunk of a cordyline I have to admit. The trees I've seen have been clear it's just the fronds that cause the hassles. What type of Cordyline was it?

I've tried with choke, without choke, half throttle it just doesn't seem to want to fire up. I tried watching the fuel and when it's running low I'll stop and refuel. It's not too bad if I can refuel quick enough but if I take just that little bit too long it won't have a bar of it.

Maybe I'm getting confused with a Welsh winter. All I remember is Aberystwyth and rain. Lots of rain.

I have the same problem with my old 66. When I run it out of fuel it won't start. I have to leave it for a few minutes and then try again. Tried the plug thing but the plug is always bone dry though when i finally get the saw started up it sounds like it has been flooded. I have to feather the throttle until it revs enough that it won't stall.

Geez you'd get shot for doing that here. Dead whales are usually blessed by the local Maori, as is the land, and then they are buried on the beach. Nothing is allowed to be removed from them unless authorized by the locals and that's highly unlikely. Whales are considered guardians of the coast by some Iwi and are revered by many.

No tickets rquired here for insurance. Just go out, get insured (if you feel like it) and start cutting trees. I think Ive been asked once by Joe Public for evidence of my quals although commercial outfits require quals, experience, a H&S policy along with a set of procedures, first aid etc. Like I said before; there's plenty of mowing contractors here trimming and removing trees, some of which are way beyond their capabilities.

You might not but there's plenty of people who will get the guy that mows their lawns to cut down that huge tree in the back garden over the top of the green house and then wonder why it all went wrong.